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Conley
03-10-2012, 02:21 PM
Suspected al-Qaeda fighters in southern Yemen have been targeted in air strikes, reports say.

Between 18 and 45 militants are said to have been killed in raids late on Friday and on Saturday.

The strikes hit positions west of Bayda and near the rebel-controlled town of Jaar, officials said.

Local sources claimed the attacks in the Bayda area were carried out by US drones or warplanes, but there has been no independent confirmation.

Local officials said Yemen air force planes carried out strikes on Saturday near Jaar.

Security vacuum
Officials in Bayda said Friday night's raids targeted a stronghold of local al-Qaeda leader Abdulwahhab al-Homaiqani. He was among the dead, a government source told Reuters.

One official told AFP the dead were mostly, "new recruits, youths from the region, taken by surprise by the raids which struck as they were dining in training camps".


The militants were reported to have equipment, weapons and vehicles in order to carry out attacks.

Local residents in both Jaar and Bayda told Reuters the strikes were aimed at Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17324141

The problem with our strategies in this region is that AQ can just keep moving around to areas where our military doesn't have a presence. Sure, we can kill low level recruits like this but the overall problem is that enemy forces just move around and blend in. I'm reading the Petraeus book and it talks about how the Taliban are masters of this, just move out of sectors that U.S. forces are clearing and then move right back in after they're gone.

Mister D
03-10-2012, 02:42 PM
Why don't they just send in snipers and special forces? Wouldn't that be cheaper than dropping so much hardware? I mean if a 40 man body count is victory...

MMC
03-10-2012, 08:38 PM
I agree with D.....no need to use expensive technology. Plus it gives our peeps hands on experience in Combat.

MMC
03-11-2012, 05:00 AM
Suspected al-Qaeda fighters in southern Yemen have been targeted in air strikes, reports say.

Between 18 and 45 militants are said to have been killed in raids late on Friday and on Saturday.

The strikes hit positions west of Bayda and near the rebel-controlled town of Jaar, officials said.

Local sources claimed the attacks in the Bayda area were carried out by US drones or warplanes, but there has been no independent confirmation.

Local officials said Yemen air force planes carried out strikes on Saturday near Jaar.

Security vacuum
Officials in Bayda said Friday night's raids targeted a stronghold of local al-Qaeda leader Abdulwahhab al-Homaiqani. He was among the dead, a government source told Reuters.

One official told AFP the dead were mostly, "new recruits, youths from the region, taken by surprise by the raids which struck as they were dining in training camps".


The militants were reported to have equipment, weapons and vehicles in order to carry out attacks.

Local residents in both Jaar and Bayda told Reuters the strikes were aimed at Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17324141

The problem with our strategies in this region is that AQ can just keep moving around to areas where our military doesn't have a presence. Sure, we can kill low level recruits like this but the overall problem is that enemy forces just move around and blend in. I'm reading the Petraeus book and it talks about how the Taliban are masters of this, just move out of sectors that U.S. forces are clearing and then move right back in after they're gone.


This is because the US does not use the required tactics that would cause the Taliban to reconsider the actions they take. Our Moral Police ensures we fight handicapped.

Conley
03-11-2012, 09:16 AM
This is because the US does not use the required tactics that would cause the Taliban to reconsider the actions they take. Our Moral Police ensures we fight handicapped.

It was also because we just didn't have the manpower. Rumsfeld was trying to pacify Afghanistan with 30,000 troopers. For the entire country. There was never a chance and that is how the Taliban was able to regroup after initially being knocked out. If Iraq had never happened then our gains likely would have been permanent.

waltky
04-23-2016, 06:44 PM
Al Qaeda in Yemen hit by drone strike and army advance...
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Yemen sides appoint ceasefire observers as army fights al Qaeda
23 Apr 2016 - Yemen's government forces battled al Qaeda in the country's south on Saturday, aiming to push back advances the militant group has made during a year-long civil war while peace talks take place in Kuwait.


Twenty fighters loyal to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were killed in the clashes, residents and a military source said, while a drone strike killed two others further north. AQAP has taken advantage of chaos in Yemen since its civil war began last year to win control over swathes of southern and eastern Yemen, creating a local government there and introducing services. The war pits a collection of local forces and army remnants backed by the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and a Saudi-led Arab coalition against the Houthi movement and troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Representatives gathered in Kuwait on Thursday to begin peace talks after agreeing a ceasefire across the country. The United Nations, which has convened the talks, says around 6,000 people have died in the conflict, half of them civilians.

However, as talks moved into a third day disputes continued over both the agenda and accusations from the government that the Houthis and Saleh's forces had breached the truce in the city of Taiz, a source from Hadi's government said. The government wants the Houthis and Saleh's forces to release prisoners, withdraw from cities and hand over weapons before discussing a solution to the political disagreements. The Houthis and its allies want coalition air missions to stop and a unity government to be formed before disarmament talks. The government delegation on Saturday said it would only meet U.N. special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmad and not sit directly with the Houthis, the source said. However, later on Saturday Ould Cheikh Ahmad said the sides had agreed to appoint delegates to oversee the ceasefire process, a small step forward. Ceasefire documents shown to Reuters by the Saudi-led coalition showed agreements for each of Yemen's provinces where fighting was taking place signed by representatives of each side, who had formed committees to monitor the truce.

CLASHES

Saturday's clashes at al-Koud near Zinjibar in the southern Abyan Province were between AQAP and army forces of Yemen's internationally recognised government backed by local militias, referred to locally as the Popular Resistance. In recent weeks Hadi's forces, backed by coalition air strikes, have pushed towards Zinjibar along the beach road from Aden. Al-Koud lies on that road only 5 km (3 miles) from Zinjibar, long considered an AQAP stronghold along with the town of Jaar about 15 km to the north. A group of dozens of AQAP fighters escaped and around 30 were injured and taken to a government hospital, the military source said, adding that two army soldiers were also killed.

Later, a suicide attack on a military post in al-Koud was thwarted when a bomb-laden car was fired on and destroyed, killing the driver, before it reached the sentries, the military source said. Also on Saturday, an air strike from a drone killed two men south of the Yemeni city of Marib suspected of belonging to al Qaeda, local residents said by phone. The United States has used drone strikes in Yemen to target AQAP leaders, the global jihadist group's local wing, which has plotted to place bombs on international airliners and has encouraged attacks in Western countries. Officials travelling to Saudi Arabia with U.S. President Barack Obama this week said they hoped moves towards a peace deal in Yemen would allow a renewed focus on challenging AQAP.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/al-qaeda-in-yemen-hit-by/2725012.html

Peter1469
04-23-2016, 08:03 PM
That branch of al Qaedia is the most dangerous from an international terror perspective.

waltky
10-05-2016, 03:23 AM
Humanitarian Disaster in Yemen Rivals Syria...
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UN: Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen Rivals Syria
October 04, 2016 — The United Nations is appealing to the international community to pay more attention to Yemen, which it considers one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.


Most media attention is on Syria, where the country's devastating, long-running civil war has killed more than 250,000 people and forced more than 11 million to flee their homes. But U.N. officials fear this focus on the horrors playing out in Syria is overshadowing the desperate needs of more than 12 million people in war-torn Yemen. Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the war has destroyed the livelihoods of Yemen's people, robbed them of basic services and pushed the economy to near total collapse. He said children are one of its main victims. “This year, the nutrition cluster estimates that there are 1.5 million [children younger than 5] who are acutely malnourished, of whom 375,000 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition,” Laerke said. “There are many, many others suffering from moderate malnutrition, indicative of the gravity and severity of the situation.”


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A malnourished boy lies on a bed outside his family's hut in al-Tuhaita district of the Red Sea province of Hudaydah, Yemen

The U.N. World Food Program (WFP), which distributes food to about 6 million people every other month, understands the gravity of the situation. But the WFP has cut back monthly food rations because it has run out of money and urgently needs $145 million to carry out its mission until the end of the year, says agency spokeswoman Bettina Luescher. She said everyone, but especially the children, are suffering from the food shortages. “Even before the violence and the war in Yemen, the malnutrition rates of children in Yemen were the highest in the world,” she said. “So you have a little bit of a perfect storm coming together there.” “Half of the children are stunted,” Luescher added, “meaning they are too short for their age because of chronic malnutrition.”

The difficulty getting food, fuel and other relief items into Yemen, Laerke said, is because of extensive damage to the port city of Hudaydah. “Before the war, Yemen was over 90 percent dependent on import of basic food items and medicines,” he said. “Eighty percent of those imports come through Hudaydah port. That gives you an indication of the importance of that lifeline.” “What is particularly urgent in the port is the rehabilitation and the repair of five cranes, which were damaged in an airstrike in August 2015, so they have been partly out of commission for quite some time,” Laerke added. Laerke said it was very difficult and slow to get shipments of goods in the port offloaded for further transportation with the cranes in need of repair.


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Mourners carry the body of Youssef al-Salmi, 10, who was killed when a bomb exploded while he was playing with it near his family's house in Hasn Faj Attan village, in the mountainous outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.

Saudi Arabia, an ally of the Yemeni government, began intensive airstrikes against the Houthi rebels at the end of March 2015. Airstrikes by the Saudi Arabian coalition have caused massive damage to the country's infrastructure. Worse is the number of civilians who have been killed or wounded. New U.N. figures put the number of casualties from the start of the Saudi bombing campaign until the end of September at nearly 11,000, including more than 4,000 killed. Rupert Colville, spokesman with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the casualties continue to mount. Since the latest estimates were issued, he said at least 10 civilians, including six children, were killed and 17 wounded in the Yemeni city of Taiz.

MORE (http://www.voanews.com/a/un-humanitarian-crisis-in-yemen-one-of-worst-in-word/3536823.html)

waltky
10-30-2016, 08:34 PM
Whole family wiped out by Saudi airstrike...
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Family of 11 killed by airstrikes in Yemen
Saturday 29th October, 2016 - Yemeni security officials say a family of 11 people was killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the war-torn western city of Taiz.


The officials say that the airstrike on Saturday targeted the house of a citizen named Abdullah Abdo in a southern district called al-Salw.


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Taiz, the cultural centre of Yemen, has been torn between coalition-backed forces and Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, for the past year and a half. The district that came under attack is close to the front line, and officials said that it is often difficult hard to distinguish rebels from government forces.

The fighting between the two sides intensified in al-Salw in recent days and many families have fled their homes. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.

http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/248968625/family-of-11-killed-by-airstrikes-in-yemen

donttread
10-31-2016, 07:03 AM
Suspected al-Qaeda fighters in southern Yemen have been targeted in air strikes, reports say.

Between 18 and 45 militants are said to have been killed in raids late on Friday and on Saturday.

The strikes hit positions west of Bayda and near the rebel-controlled town of Jaar, officials said.

Local sources claimed the attacks in the Bayda area were carried out by US drones or warplanes, but there has been no independent confirmation.

Local officials said Yemen air force planes carried out strikes on Saturday near Jaar.

Security vacuum
Officials in Bayda said Friday night's raids targeted a stronghold of local al-Qaeda leader Abdulwahhab al-Homaiqani. He was among the dead, a government source told Reuters.

One official told AFP the dead were mostly, "new recruits, youths from the region, taken by surprise by the raids which struck as they were dining in training camps".


The militants were reported to have equipment, weapons and vehicles in order to carry out attacks.

Local residents in both Jaar and Bayda told Reuters the strikes were aimed at Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17324141

The problem with our strategies in this region is that AQ can just keep moving around to areas where our military doesn't have a presence. Sure, we can kill low level recruits like this but the overall problem is that enemy forces just move around and blend in. I'm reading the Petraeus book and it talks about how the Taliban are masters of this, just move out of sectors that U.S. forces are clearing and then move right back in after they're gone.



Their is no good horse in this race. The government's we unseat as bad as they were , were the closest thing to stable left in the region.